DETAILED ACTION
This action is in response to application 18/876,847 filed on 12/19/2024.
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 2-6 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the identified claim limitation(s) that recite(s) an abstract idea do/does not fall within the enumerated groupings of abstract ideas in Section I of the 2018 Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance published in the Federal Register (84 FR 50) on January 7, 2019. Nonetheless, the claim limitation(s) is/are being treated as reciting an abstract idea because for example, independent claims 2, 4, and 6 recite claim limitations regarding “parse a fourth syntax element, from the neural network post-filter characteristics message, identifying a format of neural network data specified by the third syntax element” that has no practical application and no post solution activity.
This rejection has been approved by the Technology Center Director signing below.
Conclusion
5. The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
He et al. (US Pub. No.: 2021/0385497) discloses general constraints of syntax elements for video coding.
Chang et al. (US Pub. No.: 2021/0092455) discloses parameter set signaling for video coding.
Zhang et al. (US Pub. No.: 2019/0246122 A1) discloses Palette coding for video coding.
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/R.B.C/Examiner, Art Unit 2485
/JAYANTI K PATEL/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2485
June 5, 2026
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